During Le Guess Who? 2025, idiosyncratic violinist and electronic musician Valentina Goncharova presented 'Every Growing Tree' during the closing day of the festival. Relive the performance with our concert film, featuring live renditions of Dance of Shiva, Flame Power and Flight over Time.
For some artists, music experimentation and avant-garde emerge as natural expressions, fruits of years of evolution and artistic research. From a very young age, violinist Valentina Goncharova was immersed in chamber and classical music, studying first in Kyiv and later in Leningrad. By the 1970s, her interest expanded to contemporary composition, free jazz and underground rock, but when she found herself outside of those scenes, she felt compelled to craft her own sonic language.
Le Guess Who? Recordings
The publication of this recording is part of Le Guess Who?’s ongoing expansion of the festival’s recordings archive, with 150+ recordings from past editions now freely available online.
This archive contains audio and/or video recordings of performances by Lido Pimienta, Sam Barker & Bendik Giske, Saul Williams meets Carlos Niño & Friends featuring Surya Botofasina, The Dwarfs of East Agouza, The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, Ali Sethi & Nicolás Jaar, aja monet, ASA-CHANG & Junray, DARKSIDE, Meshell Ndegeocello, Kamilya Jubran, Alan Sparhawk, Stereolab, Tom Skinner, Selda Bağcan, clipping., Aldous Harding, Deerhunter, Art Ensemble of Chicago, The Microphones, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Arooj Aftab, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, and many more.
Captured at TivoliVredenburg's Hertz on Sunday, 9 November 2025.
This performance is supported by Ukrainian Institute.
Direction: Dammes Kieft
Camera: Anaïs Saebu, Emily Duurland, Hannah Zwaans, Jonathan Sipkema, Nicky Pajkić, Rikash Gobardhan, Yuma Eekman, Dammes Kieft
Production: Studio Dammes, Ramon de Lima
Montage & Grade: Stijn Blei
AC & Datahandling: Dennis Bravenboer
Sound recording: Marc Broer
